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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
ARCTIC COLD.

A person who has never been in the
polar regions can probably have no idea
Of what cold really is but by reading
theter1ible experiences of arctic travellers
in that icy region some notion can be
formed of the extreme cold that pre-
walls there. When we have the tenn
perature down to zero out of doors we
think it bitterly cold, and if our houses
were not SO warm as, at least, go degrees
above zero, we should begin to talk of
freezing to death. Think, then, of living
where the thermometer goes down to 35
degrees belO,O zero in the house in spite
of the stove. Of course, in such case
the fur garments are piled on until a
man looks like a great bundle of skins.
DR.. Moss, of the English polar expedition
of 1875 and 1875, among other odd
things, tells of the effect of cold ON a
wax candle which he burned there.
The temperature was IS degrees below
zero, and the doctor must have been
considerably discouraged when, upon
looking at his candle, he discovered that
the flame had all it could do to keep
warm. 1t was so cold that the flame
could not melt all the wax of the candle,
but was forced to eat its way down the
candle, leaving a sort of skeleton of the
candle standing. There was heat
enough, however, to melt oddly-shaped
holes in the thin walls of wax, and the
result was beautiful lace-like cylinder
of white, with tongue of yellow fame
burning inside it and sending out into
the darkness many streaks of light.
This is not only o curious effect of
extreme cold, but it shows how difficult
it must be to find anything like warmth
in place where even fire itself almost
gets cold. The wonder is that any man
can have the courage to willingly return
to such bitter region after having once
got safely away from it, and yet the
truth is that the spirit Of adventure is so
strong in some men that it is the very
hardship and danger which attract them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
BALL AND CHAIN FOR WHITE
SCHOOL MARMS IN
GEORGIA

Last week we referred to bill in the
Georgia legislature, the passage of
which has been recommended with
great unanimity, subjecting the teacher
of a white school to q fine of $1,000 and
two years in the chain gang for
teaching colored scholars in the same
school where white scholars are taught
The San Francisco Chronicle SAYS that
when President Cleveland makes his
contemplated visit to Georgia next
October, Mr.. Glenn, the author of the
bill, should be selected to make the ad-
dress of welcome, and "let the Presi-
dents attention be drawn to North.
ern schoolmarm,' decorated with a
ball and chain, and serving out SEN
tence of imprisonment for the heinous
offence OF exposing her white pupils to
the contamination of black skin and
a kinky head. Let the National De-
mocracy ind0rse this action if it dare.
Ii the battle of slavery is to be fought
over again, We are ready, now and al
ways, and the issue of the conflict will
be in nowise uncertain"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
THE DROUTH.

Our oldest settlers say that never be-
fore since the first settlement of Wis.
consin has there been so long and
damaging drouth as that which has
prevailed the present season. The dam.
age has not been uniform; there are
localities which have to some extent
escaped, and where crops have been
only partially injured, but these are
exceptions. That there should be some
feeling of depression among the agri
cultural population is not strange-noi
that there is any danger of famine. fol-
there is an assurance of plenty for all
Notwithstanding it is now well under.
stood that the wheat crop will general,
ly fall below the average of former
years, yet it seems not to have affected
the price of wheat, for it rules low in
the market compared with former
years.
If those outside the business of
farming are competent to Judge. this
will not be profitable year for farmers
generally. Expenses additional must
be increased; the hay crop is short,
and grain crops for feeding stock also
fall below the average yield. Stock
must be fed, and no farmer will allow
his stock to suffer for food because the
procuring Of it is expensive. Now all
these matters farmers know as well or
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
FREQUENCY OF RAILWAY
ACCIDENTS.

Whenever great accident occurs,
attended with loss of life, there is at
once much volunteered wisdom as to
how it might have been avoided. This
is all right enough; it shows the strong
sentiment for the necessity of precau-
ton. The late terrible railroad acct
dent near Chatsworth, Illinois, is one
of the most disastrous in the destruc-
ton of human life yet recorded. With
out dwelling on this particular catas-
trophe, it is we'll to remark that rail
road accidents are becoming quite too
frequent, and unnecessarily so. To
say that no precautions were taken in
running the train of over nine hun
dred passengers, no one will charge
but that every needful precaution was
adopted, the public will not believe
In tnis age of haste, it is not surpris-
ing that nultitudes, ambitious for
rapid transit, rush in the darkness to
death. Hundreds travelling on rail-
road trains, running at reasonable
speed. if inquired of whether they
would be pleased to have the cars
move little faster, would reply in the
affirmative, "put on a little more
steam." This has rightly been called
a fast age-fast not only in travel, but
in all that pertains to the activities and
fashions of life. The second sober
thought of the people will demand that
measures shall be adopted for the
greater safety of travel. People who
take passage on railway train virtual
ly commit their lives to the managers
and employees of the road. There will
occasionally accidents occur that could
not have been foreseen by the wisest
of railway officials, but these by no
means include all, or perhaps even one
half of railroad disasters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
THE NEW RAILWAY DEPOT.

The work preparatory to the build.
ing of new depot in this city for the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway was
fairly begun several months ago by the
removal of buildings from lands need
ed for the use of the road. More re-
Gently a large force has been employed
leveling the grounds and filling the
deep ravine at some distance south of
the present depot. This is heavy
work, for which gravel trains have
been engaged hauling gravel. The i'm
provements contemplated are larger
than most people suppose who have
not been on the grounds and had their
extent pointed out. AS to what has
been said of the size of the proposed
depot, its arrangement and style Of
architecture, we are assured by the
railway agent at the depot, is unautlOr:
lied and only conjectural. The public
may take it for granted the building
will be creditable to the road and the
city. What the travelling and business
public are most interested to know is,
what will its improved advantages be
over the old depot? Some of them
are apparent and of much Importance.
The depot, placed on the east side Of
the railway track relieves the necessity
for passengers from this city, whether
on foot or in carriages. to cross the
railroad track. The same for passen-
gers leaving the cars TO stop in the city !;
they are now delayed more or less,
waiting for the train to pass away, be-
fore venturing to cross the track. The
same convenience will be for freight
for the city. or shipped from the city.
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SALEM.

John Struck and wife and Miss Kit,
Brothers, of Chicago, are visiting at N
Struck's.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Yule, of Kenosha
spent Sunday and Monday with A. J
Booth and family.
Miss Clara Baker Merritt, of Chicago
who has visited relatives in Salem, re
turned last week.
J. T. Curtis, of Ohio, who has shipped
nearly 1000 sheep from Trevor, will
return this week to purchase others.
E. w. Helms is home from Madison
and will accompany his father, who will
leave for the east this week, Wednesday
John Browne has returned from VAL
paraiso, where he has attended school,
for two months.
DR.. r. Thayer has returned from &
visit to Chicago.
William Browne will go to Iowa with
A.. Patterson this week.
Ira Brown is sick with quinsy.
Mrs. G. Wicks and daughter CARR G
went to Chicago last week.
Luanah Palmetier, who has been sick
for several days. is better.
Mrs. J. Draper has gone TO Michigan
for her health.
The Methodist Sunday schools of
Salem and Wi lmot united in holding 3
picnic at Silver Lake last Saturday.
The Sunday school of the Congrega
tional church intend to hold a picnic al
Paddock's Lake the 18TH
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THE CHURCHES ON SUNDAY.

At the Methodist church Rev. Mr..
Stein Officiated. In the morning sixteen
candidates, mostly young men, were
received into the church, a part OF
whom were on probation. Twelve
received the ordinance of baptism
In the evening Rev. Mr.. Stein
preached timely sermon on the wrong
of Sunday excursions and the viola
ton of the Sunday laws.
At the Episcopal church, Rev. Mr.
Thompson preached an earnest dis
course in behalf Of missions in the
morning. urging greater effort in this
department of christian work. The
times, he maintained, demanded in
creased contributions in aid of mis-
sionary churches. and the sending Of
the gospel to those who have it not
Miss Medora Head, who not long since
returned from two years sojourn il
Europe, where she has been taking
vocal music instruction, rendered
solo with much acceptance.
The Congregational church wa
closed on Sunday, except for Sunda!
school, the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Bray. be
ing absent.
In the Baptist church the series o
subjects heretofore advertised wer
continued in their order.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
OLD SETTLERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the old set
tiers of Kenosha county has been ap-
pointed for Wednesday, August "a.
This is an earlier date than in former
years. which is probably for the better.
We urge the same reasons this year as
we have in past years for "a general
gathering of those who were early in
habitants of the county, also those of a
later period, who sympathize with the
objects of this organization. Come, old
farmers, who have braved the frosts
and SHOWS of many a Wisconsin win
ter. Come you whom God has blessed
with long life; come before the
shadows fall and dim your mortal
vision; come and greet your old friends,
whom perhaps you may not have seen
for years, and may never see again.
Let the farmers good wives come
they in their departments of industry
aided in converting the wild prairies
into fruitful fields. 1t is the women
who early advocated the establishment
Of the church and the school house.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
PROHIBITION AND HIGH
LICENSE

a. correspondent charges the TELE-
GRAPH with being in favor of both
prohibition and high license. and
therefore inconsistent, as they are two
distinct methods for remedying the
evils of intemperance-one allowing
the traffic, and the other disallowing
it. The charge is admitted that this
journal is in favor of both methods,
and its consistency is easily explain.
able. There are states in the Union
only very few-in which prohibition
can be enforced, and Wisconsin is at
present certainly not one of them.
When prohibition by state legislation
shall generally prevail, this state, it is
feared, will be among the last TO come
into line the reason for this appre-
hension has been often stated. There
fore high license-the highest that can
be sustained-is the better method for
Wisconsin. For Kansas, Iowa and
several other states prohibition can be
enforced, because public opinion has
been prepared fer it. But little i'm
portance should be attached to the
cavils seen in the papers that prohibit
ton is not strictly enforced in Kansas
and Iowa there is scarcely in any
state a good law on the statute book
for the regulation of the conduct and
affairs of men that is strictly obeyed.
but no one will be SO unwise as to
cri.icise those laws or ask for their re-
peal. Suppose the prohibitory laws of
the states named are sometimes evad-
ed ? Is that any objection to them
What wise and just laws in this and
other states have not been evaded z?
Prohibition secured by public senti-
ment ends the long fought battle with
whiskey and its kindred intoxicants,
renders jails and prisons tenantless,
dispenses to large extent with police
and criminal courts, clothes families
who were in rags with decent apparel.
High license does not accomplish all
this, but Statistics abundantly show
that it does reduce the number of
drinking saloons, diminishes drunk
enness, makes the vendor of liquor pay
a round tax to compensate, at least in
part, for the damages pecuniarily sus-
tanned in the community where he
carries on his business. 1t is true
there are damages incurred by the
traffic in intoxicants which admit of
no money estimate. But until the
people of this state are better prepared
to adopt and enforce prohibition, the
wiser method, until an advanced step
can be taken, is to heavily tax the sale
of intoxicants, thus compelling those
engaged in the liquor traffic to share
to the fullest extent possible the
burdens which their business imposes
directly and indirectly ON the people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
FIRST WOMAN MAYOR

1t is claimed that Kansas has the
only woman city Mayor in America.
The young city of Argonia. in that
state, elected Mrs. Susanna Slater
Mayor, she being now the first Mayor
in the history of woman suffrage. AS
Mrs. Slater stands uncontradicted the
first woman Mayor, our woman read
ers may be interested in her history,
and an extract is given from CORES.
pondent of the New York San who
visited the city of Argonia in south
western Kansas
GAS my visit fell upon the day OF
the city councils monthly meeting
and one of the Mayors duties is to pre-
side at the session of the city fathers
| I was privileged to see her in posi-
ton where she was clothed in all the
dignity of her Office, and thus view
was had of her in all the capacities
she fills, as wife. mother, citizen, and
official. In her intercourse with
strangers Mrs. Slater is cordial, frank
and properly dignifed. Mrs. Slater is
now twenty-seven years of age. She
is about FIVE feet three-and-a-hali
inches in height is rather the reverse
of plump, weighing about 1875 pounds
and is of quick, active temperament
Her eyes are dark gray, and her hair
which she wears parted in the center
and crimped," is of a blonde shade
She dresses neatly, but not expensive
lly, making all her own clothes and al
so those of her children, of whom she
has four, three boys and a girl baby
Her history, as narrated by herself
differs little materially up to the time
of her election from that of thousands
of her sisters throughout America
who have toiled uncomplainingly
| through life of domestic drudgery
contented and measurably happy il
wearing away their lives in the service
of those near and dear to them. 81
am home body" Mrs. Slater said
when asked if she was accustomed t.
attending conventions of her sex
throughout the State, and have only
been to one convention, that of oul
County Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, of which order you
will see l am member by observing
the badge wear in my photograph.
never neglect my home duties, and, az
/ have never had girl until since my
election, you may easily understand
that have had no time, even if ha(
had an inclination. to run around at
tending State conventions and meet
ings." And wha, ever adverse crit
cisms are made of the Mayoress, hel
townspeople all unite in giving hel
credit for being an exemplary house
wife and mother, and for bringing W
her children in the way they shoulc
/ 0OV
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better than newspaper men can tell
them. But farmers are not all rich,
and there are doubtless cases in which
some farmers calculated hopefully on
the avails of their harvests the present
year to lift mortgage from their lands,
or, if not that. to build a needed new
house or barn, or make some other de-
sirable improvement, and to this end
applied their energies in the early part
of the season. After much reasonable
expectation and hard toll, tits natural
lly disheartening to be disappointed
Sympathy for such persons is natural
The effect of this seasons harvest
failures can but have depressing ef'
feet. more or less, on all kinds OF bust
ness. The farmer is not alone; the
merchant will come in for his share IL
the curtailment of trade, and so of most
kinds of business. 1t is possible some
few may be the gamers by the droutl
and crop failures. for there scarcely
came calamity that some few did no
profit by it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
RACINE ITEMS.

A young man named August Cimke,
employed In the Klinkert brewery, was
terribly injured at the establishment on
Monday. 1t seems that he had been
instructed to clean out the large malt
tub in the brewery and had stepDed into
it for that purpose, when, through some
mistake, steam was turned in and the
machinery set in action. The m
fortunate young man was caught by the
moving machinery and injured in a
frightful manner, receiving a compound
fracture of the right leg with serious
scalding of the face and hands. He was
carried to his home and a physician
called who pronaunoes his recovery as
doubtful. The only thing that saved
the victims life was large scoop shovel
he had taken into the vat with him.
This fell into the gearing and stopped
the machinery,
Mrs. r. Baker and Mrs. G. j. Richards
have signified their intention of present
ing st. Luke's church with chime of
bells and tower clock, as a memorial to
the late George Baker. It will not only
be memorial to one of Raoine's most
popular young men, but one that will be
ever cherished by members of the
church, and looked at with pride by
citizens.
Saturday afternoon, Aug. 6, very
charming young lady stepped into one
of our dry goods stores and made a pur
chase of quite list of articles. AS she
gathered up the goods she smiled sweetly
on the clerk and said she was guest O.
mentioning a prominent citizen
would he be kind enough to send the bill
to him? The clerk would be only tor
glad. The lady left and the bill was sen
to the gentleman, who knew nothing O
any such young lady.
Will Lewis, of the Merchants hotel
met with distressing accident between
9 and 10 o'clock Tuesday night, Aug.
He was raising a window at his room il
the hotel. In stepping down his RICH
foot came in contact with an earthel
pitcher with such force as to break tn,
latter. The sharp edges cut a cash TIVE
and one-half inches on one side of hi
ankle, and made cuts on the other. III,
will be laid up for some time. D
Meachem dressed the injuries.
Mr.. M. j. Turner, of Chicago, ant
Miss Kittie Murphy, of Racine, wer
married at st. Rose church on the 1Otl
inst.
Miss Emma Rasch died at Burlington
on the 18th inst, of diphtheria, aged 2
years, 5 months and q days.
DR.. Warner Wadsworth died on tn
18th inst, Of apoplexy, aged 81 years
He was one of the most popular and re
spected men of the city, and residen
since 1912.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19

The Whitewater Register puts in a
strong claim for Hon. Robert 7. Lin.
coin as candidate for the Presidency.
The Republicans have not forgotten
the worthy son of Abraham Lincoln
during all the period the skirmishing
has been going on between the friends
of Blaine and Sherman. An express
sion of preferences is in order, but j:
is the dictate of sound policy that
there should be no commitments to
any one candidate at this early stage.
There is yet plenty of time. Republic
ans should move slow and deliberate
ly, endeavOring to ascertain on whom
their strength can be most successfully
concentrated.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
A DISAGREEABLE HABIT
CHARACTERIZED

The Chicago Journal has a regular
contributor, "The Sidewalk Stroller. y
who has an outspoken way of putting
things. What he says of the vulgar
habit of picking the teeth at the table
is timely and in point:
If tits ill-bred aud vulgar for man
at a restaurant table to rattle his knife
and fork and other table ware, it is
beastly for him to pick bis teeth there.
Twenty years ago it was well under.
stood by all decent people that the
teeth were not to be picked or sucked
in sight of other people, let alone at
the table. But the introduction of the
wooden tooth-pick has changed all this.
This highly useful little article is al
most omnipresent. 1t has an honored
place on the counter of the hotel and
restaurant Office, and on the very din
ner table itself. Encouraged BY its
presence, the human hog, while wait
ingifOr his second course, seizes a tooth
pick and whites away the moments in
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19

Fisher Is an intelligent, well educated
man, and in every sense of the word a
gentleman. But alas master, he was
colored.
Mrs. E. Coe has les; ;s.. for Somers to
visit Mr.. Gaylord Shepard of that ilk.
Rev. Mr.. Fisher, who has been enjoy
ing few weeks rest at A. ]. Benedict's,
returned to Evanston, Ills, on Wednes-
day.
The long looEed-for rain came On
Wednesday evening and night, and the
people are glad and grateful. This rain
will make lots of corn and potatoes.
The zephers went on frolic Wednes-
day night and did good many mis-
. chievous things, such as rolling the tops
off stacks, twisting limbs off trees, shak-
ing the orchards and covering the ground
with premature apples.
Mrs. Jessie Bristow visited her sister,
Mrs. Henry Torrtelotte, the fore part ol
the week.
| The Congregational parsonage had q
narrow escape from fire, caused, it is
thought, by smokers pipe setting fire
to the grass and spreading to the fence
1t required the efforts of dozen men te
subdue the flames.
Miss Celia O'Brien returned to Ke
nosha on Saturday, after enjoying two
weeks visit with the Devlins.
| Mr.. Nathaniel Parks and daughte
went to Chicago on Monday to spend
few days with friends.
i Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Farr returned t,
Kenosha on Monday.
| Mrs. Darwin Coe went on Monday t,
ISylvania, to visit friends.
/ Miss Sarah Devlin has engaged {,
teach the winter term of the Shuar
I school, but will attend the Whitewate
Normal the fall term of ten weeks.
i Mr.. J. =. Dixon moved a barn o.
| Tuesday for e. d. Edwards on the Rul
dick place; moved small building 70
G. O. Vincent on Wednesday, and O.
Thursday moved barn for H. q. Black
man. Somers.
i Mrs. ]. A. LOOMS is in quite feebl
health.
The grass is greening, and the COWS ar
smiling again.
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his farm to Jacob Kreuscher, Jr., and
has bought Philip Honold's farm,
Philip has not decided where he viii
locate.
SAMUEL Grimshaw contemplates going
to Montana to grow up with the country.
Mr.. n. Spartz is filling his silo. Quite
a number of farmers will build silo
next season if Mr.. Spartz's turned out
satisfactory.
Henry Bullamore had two carloads OF
lumber shipped to Somers On Monday
fora new barn, which viii be 3Sx60 feet,
]. Bradley and VIM. Smith are boring
well for P. Reidenbach. They have
gone down los feet, and still continue
downward.
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RANDALL.

Vet Coon was seriously i'll last week,
but is out again.
Sprague Pilot, Nutmeg, and five other
horses were taken to Ere eport last week
from the Waters Stock Farm to attend
the fair there,
There was a high wind last Wednes
day evening, preceding the rain, which
untopped stacks, blew down fences, and
tore down tree here and there.
George McKesson was out to Freeport
last week to see his horse TIMBER.
Eli Manor's colt took the special purse
at Richmond last Saturday. Christ
peignan at ONCE ordered two hoops to
to hold Eli.
The late rains have greatly benefited
the pasturage, and even now there is al
most enough feed for stock where a
week ago the ground was as bare as the
track of the highway. Corn is earring,
and will make more than half q crop.
Opinions differ as to the effect upon the
potatoes, but the weight of opinion is
that the crop is failure.